Freddie Flintoff: Living with Bulimia.

60’ for BBC One

In this powerful and unflinching documentary, Andrew ‘Freddie’ Flintoff goes on an acutely personal journey into the eating disorder he has kept secret for over 20 years – bulimia.

Freddie reveals how bulimia has played a part in the course of his life. He discusses his experience in visceral detail and meets specialists and young men with eating disorders across the UK. Together they challenge, with incredible honesty and humility, some of the stereotypes that men and boys in their position face – that is, suffering with a serious mental health condition that is perceived to be something ‘only girls get’ – and finally give a public voice to a much-misunderstood illness.

Watch on BBC iPlayer in the UK here.

Director:

Leo Burley

Producer:

Charlie Melville

Exec Producers:

Andrew Mackenzie-Betty and Melanie Leach.

Produced by South Shore Productions for BBC One.

★★★★★ “Freddie allows us to follow his journey in this very personal film.” The Daily Mail
★★★★ Guardian
★★★★ “This powerful, important film finds him confronting the condition.” The Telegraph
★★★★★ TV Times